Truro Cathedral
| Truro Cathedral | |
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| Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary | |
Truro Cathedral from St Mary's Street
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 Truro Cathedral
Location within Cornwall
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| Coordinates: 50°15′51″N 05°03′04″W / 50.26417°N 5.05111°W | |
| Location | Truro, Cornwall |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Tradition | High Church, Anglican Cathedral |
| Website | www.trurocathedral.org.uk |
| History | |
| Consecrated | 1887 |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | J. L. Pearson |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Years built | 1880–1910 |
| Specifications | |
| Number of towers | 4 |
| Number of spires | 3 |
| Spire height | 76m (crossing), 61m (western) |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Truro (since 1876) |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Tim Thornton |
| Dean | Roger Bush |
| Precentor | Simon Griffiths |
| Canon(s) | Philip Lambert, Canon Missioner Lynda Barley, Diocesan Secretary & Canon Pastor |
| Archdeacon | Bill Stuart-White, Archdeacon of Cornwall |
| Laity | |
| Director of music | Christopher Gray |
The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Truro is an Anglican cathedral located in the city of Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was built between 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival design by John Loughborough Pearson on the site of the parish church of St Mary. It is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom with three spires.
The See (or Diocese) of Truro was established in 1876, and its first bishop, Edward White Benson, was consecrated in 1877. Truro was the first cathedral to be built on a new site in England since Salisbury Cathedral in 1220.
Construction began in 1880 to a design by the leading Gothic Revival architect John Loughborough Pearson. It was built on the site of the 16th-century parish church of St Mary the Virgin, a building in the Perpendicular style with a spire 128 feet tall. St Mary's was demolished in October 1880, leaving only the south aisle, which was retained to serve as the parish church. From 1880 until 1887 a temporary wooden building on an adjacent site served as the cathedral. It accommodated fewer than 400 people and was extremely hot in summer and cold in winter. It was in this building that Benson introduced the new evening service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve, 1880. By October 1887 the choir and transepts were complete and the service of consecration took place on 3 November. The delay was caused by the wish to allow Edward Benson, by that time Archbishop of Canterbury, to attend. His successor, George Wilkinson and twenty other bishops were also present, together with civic representatives and diocesan clergy, and about 2,000 other people.The central tower was finished by 1905 and the building was completed with the opening of the two western towers in 1910. John Loughborough Pearson died in 1897 and his son Frank took over the project. Frank Loughborough Pearson's other works include St Matthew's, Auckland in New Zealand, a reduced version of Truro Cathedral.
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